I was disappointed with Obama's speech on immigration in El Paso this week.
Obama devoted about seventy-five percent of his speech presenting the economic imperatives for immigration reform. Less than a quarter of his speech addressed what could be considered the moral imperatives for creating a humane and just system for immigration. While those percentages may well reflect the priorities of the American public, I think sincere Christians should find this scandalous.
The real bottom lines is that a nation founded by immigrants has devised an immigration system that penalizes those who try to follow the rules, separates families, and punishes children for the actions of their parents. We will never be able to set politics aside and find common ground until a majority of us can agree that a system for immigration ought to give more weight to the golden rule than to the almighty dollar.
Blogger was down, so I could not post this earlier. Ethics Daily quotes me in an article published this morning.
Obama devoted about seventy-five percent of his speech presenting the economic imperatives for immigration reform. Less than a quarter of his speech addressed what could be considered the moral imperatives for creating a humane and just system for immigration. While those percentages may well reflect the priorities of the American public, I think sincere Christians should find this scandalous.
The real bottom lines is that a nation founded by immigrants has devised an immigration system that penalizes those who try to follow the rules, separates families, and punishes children for the actions of their parents. We will never be able to set politics aside and find common ground until a majority of us can agree that a system for immigration ought to give more weight to the golden rule than to the almighty dollar.
Blogger was down, so I could not post this earlier. Ethics Daily quotes me in an article published this morning.
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